What can we still learn from the The Magic Mountain? Hans Castorp, the protagonist of Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain, famously spends seven years at a tuberculosis sanatorium in Davos, Switzerland, ...

This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. “We live in an age of human self-contempt,” George Packer wrote this week. In an essay ...

“The task of a writer,” Thomas Mann (1875-1955) said, “consists in being able to make something out of an idea.” He also said, “A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for ...

I was reading Thomas Mann’s masterpiece, The Magic Mountain, when I suddenly realized that it is almost eerily relevant to our current pandemic. As time goes on, writers will inevitably provide us and ...

Novelists have been retelling existing tales for almost as long as they have been writing novels, so it’s unsurprising that Olga Tokarczuk followed up her Brobdingnagian epic “The Books of Jacob” by ...

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A strong case can be made that Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain, which was published in November 1924, marked the end of an era when a work of literature could claim to encapsulate the entirety of the ...

This talk will show how Thomas Mann's landmark German modernist novel "Der Zauberberg" ("The Magic Mountain", 1924) has developed something of a cult following among non-academic readers around the ...